Biography of pauline melville

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    Melville, Pauline

    Nationality: Guyanese. Born:Guyana, 1948.

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  • Awards: Whitbread First Novel Award, 1997. Agent: c/o St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Address: London, England.

    Publications

    Novels

    The Ventriloquist's Tale. London, Bloomsbury, 1997.

    Short Stories

    Shape Shifter: Stories.New York, Pantheon, 1990.

    The Migration of Ghosts. London, Bloomsbury, 1998.

    Other

    Contributor, In Our Nature: Stories of Wilderness, edited by Donna Seaman.

    New York, DK Publishing, 2000.

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    A Guyanese author of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, Pauline Melville has emerged in the last few years as a leading Caribbean writer, and one of the most accomplished talents on the modern literary scene.

    Shape-shifter, her first collection of stories, revealed the impressive extent of her abilities, and subsequent works have confirmed her previous achievement. A professional actress in Europe before making it as a published writer, Melvil